Procedure for hearing election petitions

(1) Save as otherwise provide by this Regulation or by any rule made thereunder, the procedure provided in the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, in regard to suits shall in so far as it may be applicable, be followed in the hearing of election petitions by the District Judge: Provided that-- (a) two or more persons whose election is called in question may be made respondents to the same petition and their case may be tried at the same time, and any two or more election petitions may be heard together: but so far as is consistent with such joint trail of hearing, the petition shall be deemed to the a separate petition against each respondent; (b) the District Judge shall not be required to record or have recorded the evidence in full, but shall make a memorandum of the evidence sufficient in his opinion for the purpose of deciding the case; (c) the District Judge may, at any stage of the proceeding, require the petitioner to give security or further security for the payment of all payment of all costs incurred or likely to be incurred by any respondent; and (d) the District Judge, for the purpose of deciding any issue, shall only be bound to require the product of or to receive such evidence, oral or documentary as he may consider necessary. (2) An order for the payment of costs or an order for the realization of security bond for costs passed by the District judge shall be executed in the same manner as if the amount to be recovered was an arrear of land revenue.